Hood

Do Netjets have Acars on their aircraft? Thanks.

kman

yup they do

USMCFLYR

Please explain - acars?

USMCFLYR

flyguy37

like text messaging for airplanes. You can get your clearance, atis, where available and company can send you messages as well all through the FMS

USMCFLYR

Must be a very useful capability! I saw this once on a B-777 then but I didn't know the name. Thanks for the explanation flyguy.

USMCFLYR

flyguy37

it can be a blessing and a curse!

FlyingNasaForm

Edit: At my airline:

We do our W&B though our ACARS too. And we will be doing cost indexing through it. It will tell us exactly what speed and altitude to fly based on current weights and temp, and ride conditions.

I think NetJets actually has AFIS.

Sorry to confuse you ROE.

Clarification

RunningOnEmpty

What types have ACARS? Who's getting cost indexing? Certainly not the smaller types?

FlyingNasaForm

ROE...I edited my previous post.

King of Rome

Netjets has AFIS. We do not have a cost index on the X as we put the throttles in the cruise detent and GO! After all, the owners bought the X for the speed. I really cnnot speak for other fleets but have never heard cost index mentioned here. We can do a lot more with AFIS than you can with ACARS.